The gay-bashers won the vote on the Goode amendment by only 6 votes (find entire vote count here). There is no way the Democrats couldn't have picked up some of these votes, had they wanted to. Russ Carnahan voted with the gay-bashers? And Obey and Spratt? Those two are in leadership. Several new members who were helped by the progressive blogs also voted to gay-bash: Boyda; Space; Carney; Ellsworth; and Donnelly.
Here's the entire list of Democratic gay-bashers. Feel free to write and call their offices and let them have it (find their contact info here). This is not why we voted for a Democratic congress.
Barrow
Berry
Bordallo
Boren
Boucher
Boyda (KS)
Carnahan
Carney
Costello
Cramer
Cuellar
Davis (AL)
Davis, Lincoln
Donnelly
Ellsworth
Etheridge
Faleomavaega
Gordon
Herseth Sandlin
Lampson
Lipinski
Mahoney (FL)
Marshall
Matheson
McIntyre
Melancon
Norton
Obey
Peterson (MN)
Rahall
Ross
Ruppersberger
Salazar
Scott (GA)
Shuler
Skelton
Space
Spratt
Tanner
Taylor
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